Will Hungary be next to leave the EU after referendum landslide?

In a crushing result for EU bureaucrats, 92.3 per cent of Hungarian voters rejected the imposition of migrant quotas. Just 1.4 per cent voted in favour of the proposals and six per cent spoiled their ballots.
Despite the landslide victory, the result was declared void because voter turnout was just 42 per cent – below the 50 per cent required to make the referendum legally binding.
Hungary’s Eurosceptic Prime Minister Victor Orbán has called the result “a strong enough weapon for us in Brussels” and pledged to enforce the verdict via a constitutional change.
He said: “Hungary voted to keep... read more

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